Prevlink.org - The Right Stuff - Teachers

The goal of this exercise is to identify and develop resistance skills.

Assign your students to visit the Prevlink web site and "The Right Stuff" section for examples of refusal skills and relate them to the class.
Follow up by presenting a sample senario to your students and help them go through the refusal skills steps.
Next, put your students into teams of 2 or 3 and assign one or two of them the goal of persuading the other(s) to participate in a risky or unhealthy behavior like sniffing gas with a friend in the garage, trying smoking a cigarette with friends behind a building, or attending a party where alcohol and marijauna will be present. The student who is being "persuaded" has to refuse the offer using pantomime only.
After the exercise, lead your students in a discussion of the refusal skills used.
Now repeat the exercise assigning different roles to each student in the groups and allow them to use a verbal response only this time.
After the exercise, lead your students in a discussion of the refusal skills used.
Now repeat the exercise again, rotating the roles of students and allow them to use both body and verbal responses.
After the exercise, lead your students in a discussion of the refusal skills used.
Finally, divide your students up into groups of 4-6 students and assign them to create a role-play or mime skit showing the refusal skills that they learned in their small groups. If possible, have your students perform their skits for younger students or video tape the skits for later viewing by younger students.